- Announced Annual Awards:
- Large Unit History Award Winner: USCGC Chase.
- Small Unit History Award Winner: USCGC Monhegan.
- Best Book on History Awards:
- Russell Drumm, The Barque of Saviors: Eagle’s Passage from the Nazi Navy to the U. S. Coast Guard
- Robert Frump, Until the Sea Shall Free Them: Life, Death and Survival in the Merchant Marine.
- Best Book on Lighthouses/Aids to Navigation: Cheryl Anne Finnerty, Lighthouses of Boston Harbor, Past and Present.
- Heritage Awards: Wayne C. Wheeler for creating the U.S. Lighthouse Society, and Sloan Wilson for his books on CG activities in WW II.
- Special Medal Award to MCPO Vince Patton for his strong support of the Foundation during his tour as MCPOCG.
- Initiated efforts to improve public access to the Coast Guard Museum/NW, which has been greatly restricted due to increased waterfront security.
- The Foundation, led by VADM H. B. Thorsen and RADM R. L. Johanson, sponsored a pylon at Kitty Hawk, NC, to commemorate a Century of Flight. This pylon is the only one to fully recognize one of our armed forces.
- Contributed to the dedication of the new Kings Point Station in honor of the only Coast Guardsman lost in the events of 9/11/01.
- Preserved the oral history of perhaps the oldest living Lighthouse Keeper mere weeks before his passing.
- Started accepting charge cards instead of only checks “written with a quill.??”
- Published three editions of The Cutter, FCGH’s magazine.
